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South Dakota workplace safety

How 1,778 OSHA-reporting employers across South Dakota compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024.

1,778
Employers
6.4
Avg TCR
36,517
Injuries
23
Fatalities

The state picture

South Dakota's reporting employers average 6.4 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 2.4 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.

6.4
avg TCR · per 100 workers
1,778
employers reporting
36,517
recordable injuries
23
worker fatalities

State average reflects each state's industry mix. Sort the table below by each employer's own grade against its industry benchmark.

South Dakota grade distribution 1,778 graded establishments · width = share

32% of South Dakota's reporting establishments earn an F and 10% an A, each measured against its own industry benchmark, not the state line. These grades are a transparent derived index, not an official OSHA rating; see the Methodology for the exact formula.

Where South Dakota ranks among states

54 states & territories by avg TCR

South Dakota's average TCR of 6.4 is lower than 15% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.

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A second cut tells a different story: ranked by injury rate alone, South Dakota is #46 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per employer establishment, it's #30 of 54, a 16-place swing. A state can run a moderate everyday injury rate while its rarer, most severe incidents cluster differently; the two metrics measure different things and shouldn't be read as interchangeable.

How South Dakota Workplaces Compare

South Dakota hosts 1,778 employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. These are not small shops: federal rules require ITA submission from workplaces with 250+ employees in any industry, plus workplaces with 20+ employees in the roughly 60 NAICS codes classified as high-hazard (construction, manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing, agriculture, and others). Across this South Dakota cohort, workers have logged 36,517 recordable injuries, producing a state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 6.4 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year during 2016–2024.

The state has recorded 23 workplace fatalities in the reporting window, which is tracked separately from non-fatal injury counts because fatal events have their own investigation trail under 29 CFR 1904.39. Reading state-level TCR requires context: the headline figure is driven by a state's industry mix. A state with a heavy construction, logging, or meatpacking footprint will mechanically post higher TCR than a state dominated by finance or professional services, even when individual employers are equally well-managed. That is why the employer table below sorts each establishment by its own TCR and letter grade, against the BLS benchmark for its specific industry, not against the state average.

For jobseekers, relocators, investors, and local safety professionals, state-level pages function as an entry point: use the grade-sorted list to spot the safest and highest-risk employers in South Dakota, then click through to an individual establishment for its year-by-year injury, illness, DART, and fatality trajectory. Compare multiple years before drawing conclusions, a single outlier year can reflect a specific event, whereas a sustained pattern across reporting cycles is a more reliable risk signal. All data comes directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries. State OSHA plans in 22 states operate their own enforcement programs in parallel, but the injury data above is harmonized through the federal ITA system.

Employers in South Dakota, by injury rate

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Employer CityIndustryGradeAvg TCR
Avantara Saint Cloud Rapid City Skilled nursing facilities C 6.8
Weathercraft of Chamberlain Chamberlain Roofing contractors F 6.8
Horst Acoustical Co., Inc. Rapid City Acoustical ceiling tile and F 6.7
SD Cimpl's Yankton Beef carcasses, half carcass F 6.7
Gil Haugan Construction Sioux Falls Commercial building construc F 6.7
Wm 2990 Mitchell Warehouse Clubs and Supercen D 6.7
2443 Sioux Falls Warehouse Clubs and Supercen D 6.7
Weller Brothers, LLC Sioux Falls Landscape care and maintenan D 6.7
Regional Health Lead-Deadwood Medical Clinic Deadwood Ambulatory surgical centers D 6.7
Agropur Lake Norden Lake Norden Cheese (except cottage chees F 6.7
Sioux Falls-Minnesota, SD - TPR Sioux Falls Blood and Organ Banks D 6.7
4021-110577700 Aberdeen Food Services F 6.7
Rainbow Play Systems, Inc. Brookings Sporting goods (except ammun F 6.7
4795-Ea-Fsd-Sioux Falls-Fsd-Trml Sioux Falls Scheduled passenger air tran D 6.7
TrueNorth Steel- Huron Huron Culverts, fabricated metal p F 6.7
Forum Communications Printing - Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Newspapers commercial printi F 6.7
Orion Food Systems LLC Sioux Falls Nationality specialty foods, F 6.7
Dells Nursing and Rehab Center, Inc. Dell Rapids Skilled nursing facilities C 6.7
M.G. Oil Company/Heartland Rapid City Bulk gasoline stations F 6.7
Truxedo Yankton Truck cap stores D 6.7
Silver Threads, Inc Gregory Assisted-living facilities w D 6.7
Horton, Inc Britton Britton Oil filters, automotive, tru D 6.6
Prinsco, Inc. - Beresford Beresford Fittings, rigid plastics pip F 6.6
DL Main Flandreau Egg Production D 6.6
Amcon - Rapid City Rapid City Tobacco products merchant wh F 6.6
Clark Drew Construction, Inc Brookings Addition, alteration and ren F 6.6
Avantara Milbank Miblank Skilled nursing facilities C 6.6
DGS Aviation Services : RAP - Rapid City Rapid City Support Activities for Air T D 6.6
Hart Ranch Camping Resort Rapid City Recreational vehicle parks F 6.6
NDX Bauer Mitchell Dental Laboratories D 6.6
Vander Haag's Inc. - Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Auto salvage yards (i.e., re D 6.6
Hander Inc Sioux Falls Plumbing fixture installatio F 6.6
Watertown Plant Watertown Truck bodies and cabs manufa D 6.6
Brookings Prince Dr Facility Brookings Windows and window frames, p D 6.5
Sweetman Construction Company d/b/a Rail to Road Sioux Falls Loading and unloading servic D 6.5
Mitchell Office and Warehouse Mitchell Distribution of electric pow F 6.5
Pierre Sd - 3321 Pierre Home Centers D 6.5
Sodexo at Prairie Lakes Healthcare-Food Watertown Food Service Contractors F 6.5
4186-02760 Sioux Falls Dollar Stores D 6.5
VenuWorks of Brookings, LLC Brookings Managers of live performing F 6.5
Scotchman Industries, Inc Philip Machine tools, metal forming D 6.5
4186-04086 Rapid City Dollar Stores D 6.5
2990 Mitchell Warehouse Clubs and Supercen D 6.5
897 Sioux Falls, Sd Sioux Falls Family Clothing Stores D 6.5
Vern Eide Ford Mitchell Retail Sales D 6.5
Sioux Falls Best Western Plus Ramkota Sioux Falls Hotels (except casino hotels F 6.5
OVB Holdings LLC Huron Aggregate spreaders manufact D 6.5
James Valley Ethanol dba Poet Biorefining Groton Groton Denatured alcohol manufactur D 6.5
Creative Surfaces Inc Sioux Falls Millwork, custom architectur D 6.5
Brighter Transition Youth Treatment Center Sioux Falls Mental health program admini F 6.5
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What South Dakota's safety record means for you

South Dakota averages a TCR of 6.4 - about 2.4× the ~2.7 national private-sector norm. A state average hides wide employer-by-employer variation.

State averages use the credible-subset mean across reporting establishments; they are statistical summaries, not regulatory assessments.

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.